State v. Briney

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• construing “readily capable of use as a weapon” in former ORS 166.210(3) (2007) to mean “promptly able to be made so at the time that an indi- vidual is alleged to be unlawfully carrying it concealed” (emphasis in original)
• courts give an undefined term of common usage a “plain, ordinary meaning”
• courts are to give words of common usage their plain, ordinary meaning
• gun with broken firing pin did not qualify as “firearm” under ORS 166.210(3) (2007), which required weapon to be “designed to expel a projectile by the action of powder” and also to be “readily capable of use as a weapon”
• court gives words of common usage their plain, ordinary meaning
• gun with broken firing pin did not qualify as “firearm” under ORS 166.210(3) (2007), which required weapon to be “designed to expel a projec- tile by the action of powder” and also to be “readily capable of use as a weapon”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).